GIS Day 2020

Join us for our annual GIS Day event!

What is GIS? Why study it with us? Find out!

We're going virtual this year, with a shortened schedule of events, including:

• Welcome and GGS Department Overview
• "Why Study GIS for Spatial Science?" an interactive presentation by Dr. Edward Oughton, our new GIScience faculty hire
• Student Showcase: Lightning research talks by GGS graduate students 
• GeoBowl: Trivia game hosted by Mason Mappers with cash prizes at stake!

Register for free, here.

Day-of Schedule:

1pm – Welcome - Dr. Dieter Pfoser, GGS Department Chair

1:10pm – "Why Study GIS for Spatial Science?" - Dr. Edward Oughton, GGS Assistant Professor

2pm – Undergraduate Programs Q&A - Drs. Nathan Burtch & Christine Rosenfeld, GGS Term Assistant Professors

2:15 – Graduate Programs Q&A - Dr. Dieter Pfoser, GGS Department Chair

2:30 – Student Showcase: Lightning Talks

3:30 – GeoBowl - Mason Mappers

GMU's GIS Library is a wealth of resources, available year round! 

Explore GeoData@Mason: a new data portal to search, preview and download datasets curated and held in the University Libraries' repository at Mason as well as search data managed by other repositories including Harvard, Tufts and UC-Berkeley, etc.  Please contact Joy Suh (hsuh1@gmu.edu), Geospatial Resources Librarian in Digital Scholarship Center if you have any questions on this site.